West Linn Session

Several months ago my friend Andrew Burke, who writes for Video Maker Magazine, received a pre-production model of the Panasonic HMC-40. He wanted to give it a test run, so I called up some friends and we hit up West Linn skatepark. This is the skating plus some b-roll from that session. All fisheye shots are filmed with the Canon Vixia HV30 with Century Optics 43mm MKii .3x Baby Death (thanks Nigel!) and the long lens shots are all the HMC40. Enjoy!

Skaters (order of appearance)

Cody Lockwood
Michael Davis
Mason Huggins

-Darren

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Bacon
• skateboards
• portland
• oregon
• pro
• am
• steeze
• HMC40
• century
• optics
• fisheye

[treebigs]

You should do your homework on the settings. HMC40 should be shooting way clearer video like this guys here search "panasonic HMC40 new cam test clip!" and also "HMC40 Outdoor Action of UTV and Side by Side Vehicles". Just trying to help

[Skapo]

I'm not new to working with prosumer/professional Panasonic cameras. We were shooting twilight. HMC40 has 3 one quarter inch sensors. Which means sucky low light capabilities. Thus bumping the shutter speed up would've hurt the shots more than anything. I've seen both of those videos and they were shot mid day. I think the price for the HMC40 is set too high. It is a sick camera, but it is still closer to high end consumer grade camcorders, partially due to sensor size and low bit rate.

[666doublebass]

what kind of camera did you get the fisheye shots with?

[Skapo]

A Canon HV30 with Century Optics Baby Death.

[SkaterGabe15]

some of these clips were in the portland film reel video

[Skapo]

Yup I just wanted to post the entire session because it was a fun day.

[NBproductionspresent]

which program did you use to edit this footage?

[BBrtqB]

@Skapo you should try this camera with 43mm cause i really want to see what it looks like

[musicvision31]

the HV30 looks better in this haha!  But awesome filming buddies !!!

[907AK75]

What do you think hmc40 or fx1?

[TylerSaysTV]

at 0:54 what camera was that guy using? was it the same as u???????

[buttnugget59]

bs disaster slide was crazy loved it

[Rickyyy001]

@moshpit2469 Thanks bro i'll take that into consideration!

[moshpit2469]

@Rickyyy001 FX7 fosho. It feels like a VX2K in ur hand, but it's HD. FX7 + MK1 Fisheye= LOve.

[Rickyyy001]

will the MKii work with and vixia? thanks

[Rickyyy001]

hey man i hear the panasonic hmc40 feels super cheap? i'm lookin to buy one of thses, think i should skip it and get a fx7? or something else around the same price? thanks man!!!